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		<title>Good Things Friday (382) and Link Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1. Entirely by happenstance, we got to spend time with friends from the East Coast AND from Alaska, both passing through the Bay Area. That was great fun. View this post on Instagram A post shared by 𝙻𝚒𝚣 𝙲𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚘 (@lizclimo) This provoked a DUH scoff from me: The effects of remote work on the disability [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (316)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 48: JB and I had the school lost and found project scheduled and we&#8217;d invited one of their friends to come help out since they were bored at home. I didn&#8217;t expect Friend to be a great deal of help but having the extra [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Good Things Friday (381) and Link Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1. While I&#8217;d like the dang app to just show me my friends&#8217; posts, Instagram has learned to show me very cute animals and I love that bit. Comment replies since the app is buggy: @Beth: Great minds! I did start looking at some philanthropic foundations. No traction so far but definitely an area to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My kids and notes: Year 11.2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Life with JB Grown adults still thinking that getting paid more means losing it all to taxes makes me batty. After another athlete shared that they had their contract written for a dollar less than $1M because of taxes, I pulled JB aside to explain marginal tax rates to them. They need to know well [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (315)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 41: Somehow we landed on some cruise lines&#8217; mailing lists which is starting to make me batty. We don&#8217;t cruise. Stop sending us junk that I have to clean up! I usually email these places and tell them to stop mailing us shit but [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Good Things Friday (380) and Link Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1. I cooked a stir fry and that&#8217;ll be good for two meals: Dinner and a day of leftovers. I&#8217;m very proud of myself for including two veggies (green beans and snow peas) and two proteins (pork and tofu). I wanted to add more veggies (napa cabbage, bean sprouts, carrots) but I would have to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recession and Layoff Prep 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I probably know all this already, but I&#8217;m going through Jim Wang&#8217;s Recession Prep list anyway just in case I&#8217;ve missed anything. Increase Your Emergency Fund. ✅ The usual guidance is 3-6 months but I lived through the Great Recession, so nope, I&#8217;ve always operated on a 12-18 month cash buffer. The monthly dollar amount [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (314)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 34: I&#8217;ve had an intermittent sore throat for three weeks. Four weeks? I expect that&#8217;s the stress expressing itself in immune insufficiency &#8211; my body&#8217;s so tired and strained under the stresses that it&#8217;s trying to fall sick to any virus that comes along. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Good Things Friday (379) and Link Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1. FINALLY. I installed WP Armour as a spam blocker after the last three bombed and this one actually works. HUZZAH! I can finally stop wading through floods of spam comments. 2. I finally found my missing water bottle that had been tucked into a never used pocket of a duffel bag! 3. My stubborn [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Money &#038; Life Report: May 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Money Income Our primary income comes from our full time jobs. We have minimal income from investing in index funds and dividend stocks (all reinvested). We earn money on the side to supplement our main incomes. We get a bit of income from Swagbucks, cash back sites (Rakuten, Mr.Rebates) and affiliate links to Bookshop [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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